Vehicle-wheel.



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' VEHICLE WHEEL. l

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@Nieren Sterns Parent SIDNEY B. WHI'IESIDE, OF NEl/V YORK, N.v Y., ASSIGNORl TO WHITESIDE WHEEL COMPANY, LIMITED, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

SPEUIFICATICN forming part of Letters Patent No. 712,876, dated November 4, 1902.

` Application tiled March 1l, 1902. Serial No, 97,787. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern,.- 'lhe primary feature of the present inven- Beit known that I, SIDNEY B. VVHITESIDE, tion is the means whereby the two parts of a citizen of the United States, residing at the` the hub are locked under tension, and this city of New York, in the borough of Manhat' will now be described. The abutting ends of 55 5 tan and State of New York, have invented the two parts of the hub are each provided certain new and useful Improvements in Vewith one or more ears or lugs b, which project hicle-Wheels, of which the following is a full, radially outward and extend across the joint, clear, and exact description. so that the lugs on one part of the hub will This invention relates to vehicle-wheels, overlap those on the other, and thus provide 6o lo and has special reference to the type of wheel for the location of a hole U, which shall be in described in my previous application, Serial line with a similar hole in the next adjacent No.93,178, filed February 8, 1902. This wheel lug and adapt the lugs to be connected toconsists of a rim and a hub, the latter in two gether in pairs by bolts c and nuts c'. When parts movable in a circumferential direction the relative rotation of the parts of the hub 65 15 with respect to eachother, and two sets of occurs,theadjacentlugsapproach eachother, spokes extending from the rim to the respecand when the tension or torsional strain has tive parts of the hub, whereby uniform tenbeen brought to the proper degree the bolts sion may be put upon all the spokes and the c are inserted through the several pairs of entire wheel by rotating the two parts of the lugs, and the nuts c are applied to the bolts 7o zo hub in opposite directions and then locking and set up until the lugs are confined between them together at the point where the desired the head of the bolts and the nuts, thus setension is obtained. In the present case the curing the parts of the hub and the wheel un' invention has to do with the means for lockder strain. ing the two parts of the hub under tension. It is obvious that the number of pairs of 75 z5 It also relates to certain other details of conlugs is not material as affecting the scope of f struction, all of which will be fully described my invention, since Ain some wheels a single hereinafter, and pointed out in the claims. pair of lugs will be sufcient, while in heavy In the accompanying drawings, Figure lV wheels intended to do heavy work two or is a side elevation of the wheel. Fig. 2 is a more pairs of lugs are desirable. My inven- 8c 3o section through the hub of the wheel. Fig. 3 tion also extends to other means for holding is a section on line 0cm of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is an the pairs of lugs together-for instance, a U- end elevation of the hub. shaped clam p could be dropped over each pair The hub of the wheel is divided into two of lugs. parts on a plane substantially at right angles Any suitable form of box, as B, may be 85 35 to the axis, said parts being indicated by A used withV this hub and held in place by the and A and the line of division being substannut g or in any other desired way. tially at the middle point of the hub, although, I claimthis is not essential. Each part of the hub is l. A wheel consisting of the combination of provided with substantial radial holes u', to a rim, and a hub in two parts separated on a 9a 4.o receive the ends of the spokes, as shown in planesubstantially at right angles to the Fig. 3, the spokes being provided with hooks axis, two sets of spokes leading from the rim for this purpose and leading from the surface lto the respective parts of the hub, lugs proof the hub in an approximately tangential dijecting radially from the parts of the hub rection to the rim. The spokes connected said parts. being adapted to'be rotated with 95 45 with one part of the hub lead to the rim in respect Ato each other after the spokes have a direction opposite to those connected with been connected therewith,and means for lockthe other part of the hub, so that when the ing or securing the lugs together to hold the two parts of the hubare rotated with respect parts under tension, substantially as deto each other by means of a suitable wrench scribed. Io'o 5o or other device a uniform tension is put upon 2. In a wheel, the combination of a rim,and

all the spokes simultaneously. a hub in two parts separated on a plane substantially at right angles to the axis, two sets of spokes extendingr from the rim to the respective parts of the hnb said parts being adapted to be rotated with respect to each other after the spokes have been connected therewith, lugs projecting from each part of the hub, and bolts securing the lugs on one part to those on the other, substantially as described.

3. In a wheel, the combination of the rim, and a hub in two parts separated on a plane substantially at right angles to the axis, two Sets 0f spokes extending from the rim to the respective parts of the hub, said parts being adapted to be rotated with respect to each other after the spokes have been connected therewith, lugs projecting radially from each part of the hub, those of one part'overlapping those of the other, and means for securing the overlapping lugs together, substantially as described.

Lt. In a wheel,the combination of a rim,and a hub in two parts separated on a plane substantially at right angles to the axis, two sets of spokes extending from the rim to the respective parts of the hub, said parts being adapted to be rotated with respect to each other after the spokes have been connected therewith, lugs projecting radially from each part of the hub, the lugs of one part overlappin;r those of the other, each lng being perforated and bolts passing through said perforations and connecting the lugs together in pairs, each pair consisting ot' a lug from each part of the hub, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I subscribe my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SIDNEY B. VVHITESIDE.

Vitnesses:

WM. A. ROSENBAUM, FRANK S. OBER. 

